When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
GASTON BACHELARDEvery corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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We must listen to poets.
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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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